Hi, I’ve been working on making localhost farmbot. I can connect my localhost web_app and mqtt-gateway. Knowing that the web-app can auto update the farmbot-os. Is there possible to hot code reload the farmbot_os which I have make some change. So I can make change without using mix firmware.burn each time.
Thanks for any reply.
Good question. When we write features for FarmBot OS, we typically don’t work off of the Pi unless we are debugging specific hardware issues or are working on a very specific hardware related feature.
If you are just tinkering with the source code on your local desktop, you can simply run the software locally (mix deps.get; iex -S mix
). You will need to run configuration on localhost:5000
instead of WiFi. You can plug the Arduino directly into your desktop for serial support.
CC: @connor
Ah yes the age old question. The Code that runs on the Raspberry Pi uses a framework called Nerves
of which i am a core contributor/maintainer. We have support for Hot code reloading but it’s not completely ready yet.
In the meantime i personally spend very little time developing on the pi itself. I work from my “host” machine, run tests and whatnot there - then deploy to the Raspberry Pi. There is no “hot code reload” built in by default but from the shell you can issue a r Farmbot.WhatEverMod.Changed
and it will reload and tell you of any compiler errors.
ALSO i forgot to mention. You can upload firmware over network.
so do a mix firmware.burn
to your device then make any changes and do mix firmware.upload
@RickCarlino
Thanks a lot for replying.
I have tried iex -S mix but compile go wrong at nerves_runtime.I set the TARGET as host, and ENV with dev.
@connor
Thanks a lot for replying.
I have tried mix firmware.upload 192.168..(The IP that my pi connect to the wifi).
It fail at Uploading. With HTTP Request fail (400) body: fwup_error. What may cause this happen. I am edit on VM box. Show I for connect the Internet I use NAT, the IP will become 10.0..**. Is this makes the error?
Can you post the output of your terminal?
i suspect you are trying too flash an image you built onto a production image.
Official Farmbot images are signed so they can’t be updated unless it comes from the Farmbot Team directly. You will probably have to do a MIX_TARGET=rpi3 mix firmware
, then MIX_TARGET=rpi3 mix firmware.burn
(with your SDCARD plugged into your computer), then after you configure your bot run MIX_TARGET=rpi3 mix firmware.upload <ip address>
@connor
Thanks a lot for replying.
The origin system on my Rpi3 is use MIX_TARGET=rpi3 MIX_ENV=prod, then mix firmware and mix firmware.burn on SD directly plug on my notebook.
Below is the terminal picture.
Does mix firmware.upload 140.138.137.19 need the supply of WEB_APP or mqtt-gateway?
Because for connecting to rpi3 I need change the Internet setting of VM to NAT. While that without Internet setting of VM be bridge the WEB_APP and mqtt-gateway can’t be access except in the VM system.